Overview
- Description
- Dramatizes, by animation, the mixing of "Dr. Hitler's purge medicine" (consisting of racial and religious prejudice) by Nazi propangandists. Efforts to see this "purge" tonic in the US are shattered on the rock of American tolerance.
- Film Title
-
Weapon of War
- Duration
- 00:05:14
- Date
-
Production:
1944
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 03:15:01:00 to 03:20:15:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 857 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 857 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 857 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 857 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 857 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 857 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 857 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 857 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
- Note
- Distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry
See Story 962, Film ID 913 for a similar version of "Weapon of War" with different titles. - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1924
Source Archive Number: 111 M 1108 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:37
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